We have spent a short time in the new day and we are working on this music, music, what a thick inside of our skin we have. Yana pausyul, at the sun, at the timid hands. On the tips of our fingers the music is soothing, intense, thoughtful and revealing we have thousands of gifts in front of us. Music can change the light, as much as it can change us. Music is inside our skin. We need recharge, we need experts, including among young people, we receive a large amount of information that allows us to identify boiling points and work on them, we never offend anyone, this is in our mentality. This is a state of mind, it turns out, yes. Hello, you are watching the program, say dont be silent, in the studio of victoria popova and tatyana shcherbina. And today our guest, head of the mogilev region bc department, oleg koropov. Good afternoon, oleg leonidovich. Hello. Nice to meet you. We are glad to see you, let us remind our viewers what bc is this is the Belarusian Institute of strategic studies, which was established by ours in the nineteenth year. President , as a factory of thought, you joined this ark in the twentysecond year, this was a conscious step for you, yes, you know, a very conscious one, from the moment the institute was formed in the nineteenth year, i closely followed its activities, in line with my previous work, i worked a lot with information, i was prone to analysis, i was very interested in this, so i really wanted to join the creative, young, Energetic Team of our institute, its very good that it happened so. It turned out that i was given this chance, for which i am grateful to my colleagues and i was very glad to be part of such a wonderful team. Indeed, this is the direction, strategic research, the formation of meanings, because this institute is practically, it was very necessary, it appeared at the right moment, such centers exist in every country, they today shape, one might say, the politics and economy of various states, so i was very interested in taking this professional step, i wanted to grow. Well, in the position of head of the department for the magilev region, regional department. Bc politics, you have been working for more than 2 years, but to make it easier for us to navigate your professional priorities, tell us how you explain to your fifteenyearold daughter what you do . Well, you know, from a young age my daughter sees that dad is actively involved in social and political activities, some events, preparation and implementation, he always participates with me somewhere in some events, well, now dad is also doing research work, thats why i say that we are doing research. And we prepare analytical information and not only for decision makers, so that these decisions are more balanced, thoughtful, based on various sources of information, the main thing is that they make our lives better and more comfortable, so that you children can grow up in peace safe, this is the most important message. How are analysts actually selected for this institute of strategic research, where do they come from, where are they noticed . Oh, you know, this comes with really a lot of work and interviews, in particular ours in the regions. Our regional studies, because someone today is more connected with the border, you know how serious the topic is today, grodno, brest, and vitebsk today, so there of course more attention is paid to this issue, how these external situations affect ours and everyday life with you, well, we also have cooperation with russia, with the regions, and in general, of course, we are one team, so when we conduct complex research, we work for our Central Office in order to really do that analytical. You can brag a little in the magilev region, one of the directions is, of course, working with students and we need reinforcement, we need experts, including among young people, they need to be trained, today there are a lot of talented people. The first republican competition is being held young analysts, based on its results , a pool of young analysts will be formed in which work will be carried out on a systematic basis at the republican level and this is very good, these young people are actively involved in this competition and what topics are chosen most often, you know, for the first i think the competition was very active, about 100 works were received by our institute, including very active ones, about 20 works were from the mogilev region, our analysts were actively involved. Various surveys among their peers, students, teachers, they tried to deduce the educational trends of the future, but any future is also based on today, so they studied both what has already been done today and what they looked ahead, and of course, the topic of artificial intelligence, it is today the youth are very concerned, there were several works, and you know, there were works on ecology, on education, how to prepare working professions, how to make this prestigious. I was very actively discussing, well, how do you think our young people are capable . Of course, you know, the main thing here is not even how scientifically accurate they wrote the work, the most important thing is that, working with a large amount of information, they tried to document their thoughts and their vision, then we will work with them. Since last year, it was your mogilev branch that began to independently conduct online surveys using a new software product. Infosociology, it was also developed by your specialists, well, do you think, time has shown that this tool is of high quality. Yes, you know, very a great help in our work, what is good about the infociology system is that it allows a person to think at any free time, he receives a link to this or that survey electronically, there is no need to fill out anything, there is a paper version, and through this mechanism we get a lot of feedback. Direct communication, that is , people willingly answer open questions, and that is, we receive a large amount of information that allows us to determine boiling points and work on them, and this also allows us to reach the population as much as possible region, lets say, any of our surveys is no longer 900,000, as is usually the case with ordinary surveys, but 3. 5400 residents of the region participate in these surveys, and this allows us, we have already measured and verified the results, among other things. Very accurately determine the positions that we will study, and this is a constant sample, here is 3,500, we try to make at least such a sample and people change from different regions, yes, that is , yes, first of all we change regions, but we always leave cities large, but we constantly change four or five regions, which means today we conduct one study in one region, in another, the next, and then in a year or two we return to some general topics in order to have dynamics, this is very important, people are not afraid to answer online, but they participate, and its interesting. Of course, in analytical work a number of tools are important, any of our analytics is prepared using at least four five sources, this is, of course, certainly the accumulation of some initial amount of information, this is the statistics that we use, this is conducting online surveys that allow here we can identify some areas that need to be studied more deeply, of course, and these are expert opinions, so the next stage we definitely have a Certain Network of experts for which we will conduct research. We attract, we talk with experts, and of course, this means visiting work collectives, communicating with the directors and workers, we have a small towns project, such a very interesting project, where we study life in small towns, and how we definitely meet with people, of course we also have information analysis space, there is one of our projects , infometrics helps a lot in this matter, based on these several five or six sources, then an analytical document is prepared, you study the mood, this is information from your website, requests, social wellbeing of the population of the region, well its just that all these concepts are very relative, heres how to measure the wellbeing of, say, the population, well, there is a certain methodology, there are certain questions that we ask, how do you evaluate your material today how are you feeling, what mood are you in . Well, in the mentality of our people to live in peace, calmness and still wait and strive for the better, the latest survey showed today that almost 50 of the population of belarus believes better that in the near future the situation will change for the better, there are 30 percent that calmly, and somewhere the proportion of those who are anxious has significantly decreased, but we must understand that yes, in order to believe the best, as our president says, we must be prepared for anything, both from our position, from our unity. Today a lot depends, so we believe the best, and the fact that there will be constant attempts to rock our country, the head of state also spoke about this, we see this too, we must be prepared for this, but it seems to me that there is confidence that the people have already learned to distinguish the truth , these values are imposed from our traditional slavic values, this belief in the best, in your opinion, what is it based on, it is based on the fact that for us belarusians, the most important thing is peace. This is safety, for our health, mental comfort, today we are talking about external situation, we see that people there are inciting people against us, but we must somehow justify our own and military expenses, the deterioration in the quality of life of our population, including neighboring countries, so they make enemies out of us, and we, despite everything what, tell me, we always treat our neighbors with respect, be they the balts, be they ukrainians, be they poles. We never insult anyone, this is in our mentality, it has been preserved, maybe we need to be angrier sometimes, but thats why we want peace, goodness such calmness, we dont want to quarrel with anyone, we are an open country, we have open borders, people come to us, more than 800 thousand people have taken advantage of the visafree regime and people come and see that it is a peaceful, calm country, everything is there, they are scared there and they are doing Everything Possible so that they dont come here today, do i understand correctly that life is calm inside. They have already arisen, i see that the issue is being resolved there, there will be road repairs in one of the districts, i see that a report is already being made that measures have been strengthened, 89 streets will be repaired, that is this information is constantly coming in handy, but we, as we communicated with our chairman of the executive committee, by the way, really the governoranalyst mikhailovich satenko, he really works with such an array of information, he always prepares, and today we see that the magilev region has moved from a stable dynamics of recovery to sustainable gdp growth in two. This question, the Belarusian Institute of strategic studies has implemented such an interesting project, a value portrait of belarusian society. And according to the results of various studies, and the Belarusian Institute for strategic studies, we are customers of various structures that have surveys on this license in order to be able to conduct such an independent assessment of information from different sources. So, based on various studies conducted , these two were derived. According to our values stateforming and personal, so stateforming in the first place, i have already said, this is peace, in the second is security, and in the third, as the president says, justice, but justice is very important for our society, well, then there are other freedoms, human rights, only at the end there are some questions of material, private property, that is, you see that in the mentality of our people there is no pragmatism, and perhaps more pragmatism is needed, but it is not there yet, but as for personal qualities, then. This is health, parents, children, spiritual comfort, peace, in these first places, and you know, the Belarusian Institute developed a value code, they called it dobrabyt, in this belarusian warm word, indeed, probably our soul lay it down calmly, cleanly, its comfortable, great, and were enjoying ourselves, yes, we dont seem to need anything more, of course, we need to understand that it will be good when everything and the state are good, and for this we also need to act in a certain way today. Lets take a break for a while, i remind you that we have a telegram channel. Say, dont be silent, subscribe, ask questions and suggest guests, we are in touch. The say dont be silent program is on air again, and today our guest is the head of the mogelev Region Department of the Regional Policy department of the Belarusian Institute. Strategic studies oleg koropov. Oleg leonidovich, abc expert insists that foreign analytics are dangerous, and as noted on your website, western analysts use their authority, try to program the consumer of information, manipulate him, and thus achieve a high degree of reality in their forecasts. What are we talking about, some kind of hypnosis, maybe we see that lately, and indeed the last few years, there is already a world order that. We must stop one step away from how they think they have almost achieved their goals, this is impossible, and moreover, we see that today other countries and interstate associations, such as the sco, are strengthening. Brix, in the future this could threaten those systems of values and those systems of checks and balances that they have imposed today, starting in the nineties through all these color revolutions. They now already feel this threat, they feel this threat, they also feel a threat to their dollar, which, unfortunately, still holds certain positions due to the fact that they have a world sand press 60 , today the dollar still retains a reserve currency, but we must take into account that today the us debt is 34 trillion dollars. Information war, what forces and means are involved in order to penetrate our consciousness and penetrate and pit us against each other, including the slavs, we see what is happening, and we are trying to represent the word, the truth, but today technology has advanced so much that of course, somewhere they manage to manipulate our consciousness, and what are the forces of psychological operations worth today . In fact, in the pentagon there are five battalions of psychological operations, in any another organization, that is. Wants, there is a pure imposition of a certain point of view, this is the worst thing, so we tell the truth about our path, about our development, about our achievements, and we let people compare, we give international experience, we we give what is happening in our neighbors, what is happening today in our country, you have already mentioned that one of your Job Responsibilities is meeting with people, you give speeches very often in the regions, and so on, but is it enough this is to resist the information abyss, a serious issue that we discussed a little earlier, well, it just seems to me that these lectures and reports are a somewhat outdated form of communication, or something, interaction with the population, today everything is on networks, people are always on their phones, well, this one of the forms, firstly, this does not mean that it is the most basic, although you know, no one will ever replace the living word. Thank god that today in the regions, by the way, new faces have actually been added due to the fact that each region today has its own analytical programs, its own talk shows, where local experts are coming up, and this is very good, and young media experts, we have a number of interesting projects in the field, all together, of course, the Technology Must be there , for this we must constantly work on promoting our products, content on the internet, in networks, in messengers, and you need to be able to do it. Because in the short period of time that we worked for more than two years, we really, firstly, became, i attribute this award not only to myself, to my department, but to all regional branches, because for this it took a short time for us to form somewhere, we became recognizable and in demand locally, and of course, everyone has their own projects, we , of course, have a Student League of young analysts, and many information projects, a lot of our own research, this was noticed, but i say again that this is a high assessment of the work that. Lbc in creating its own regional ones and this is gratitude, therefore, for attracting young people, well, mainly for attracting young people for outreach media work. Anyway, i think that your parents can be proud of you, and you, we know that you are from magilev, and your parents worked at the electric motor plant, your mom and dad are very impressive, how did they meet . Yes, there really was a very interesting romantic story; my father served in those years. He served as a sailor in kaliningrad, and the mother, a large family from the belgorod region, which, unfortunately, we see, is now receiving various information, unfortunately, unpleasant, but from the belarusian region she at that time lived with her sister in in kaliningrad, at one of the dance evenings in the sailors house, they met, and you know, it was love at first sight, they had not parted for the entire period of my fathers service there, even i know that my father somehow. The last ringer rang call, and judging by the guitar, you were popular at school, but you probably also gained ladies interest in mechanical engineering, i was a modest person in general, well, you know, yes, firstly, the guitar, it was popular in our eighties, nineties , we every guy dreamed of playing the guitar and we all we learned from each other, in general, i then actively used the guitar in conducting some kind of activities. This collapse, the collapse, and komsomol, when i came to the university, there was an ideological and valuebased everything else, and no matter how there was no Youth Organization in the university at that time there was nothing, but i wanted something somewhere to prove myself even more, especially since one day in one of them i was walking past the institute and saw an advertisement that they were recruiting for a guitar playing studio and i really wanted to try well, my skills, because im selftaught in principle, i not a professional musician, i wanted to try my skills, and i came to this studio, and it so happened that there was also a selection there, we sang, there, we showed our skills, as a result a vocalinstrumental ensemble was formed, and we sort of participated in various events, as i now remember the stage, our first performance, we were worried, it was for the thirtyfifth anniversary of the university, and we went out on stage